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'As Their Natural Resources Fail': Native Peoples and the Economic History of Northern Manitoba, 1870-1930

376 pgs.

Publisher:

   University of British Columbia Press

Place of Publication:

  Vancouver  

Publication Year:

  1996

Subjects:

Indians Of North America--Manitoba--History, Indians Of North America--Manitoba--Economic Conditions, Manitoba--Economic Conditions

	Contents
	Illustrations, Figures, and Tables /	ix
	Foreword /	xii
	Acknowledgments /	xiv
	Introduction /	3
1	'To Look for Food Instead of Fur': Local Economies -- Indian Bands and Company Posts /	14
2	'The Only Remedy Is the Employment of Steam': Reorganizing the Regional System /	44
3	'Dependent on the Company's Provisions for Subsistence': The Decline of Kihchiwaskahikanihk (York Factory) /	63
4	'To Be Shut Up on a Small Reserve': Geographical and Economic Aspects of Indian Treaties /	75
5	'Lands Are Getting Poor in Hunting': Treaty Adhesions in Northern Manitoba /	99
6	'Terms and Conditions as May Be Deemed Expedient': Metis Aboriginal Title /	114
7	'Go and Pitch His Camp': Native Settlement Patterns and Indian Agriculture /	143
8	'Nothing to Make Up for the Great Loss of Winter Food': Resource Conflicts over Common-Property Fisheries /	174
9	'A Great Future Awaits This Section of Northern Manitoba': Economic Boom and Native Labour /	187
10	'They Make a Comfortable Living': Economic Change and Incomes /	199
11	'Wait until Advancing Civilization Has So Interfered with Their Natural Resources': Surplus Labour, Migrations, and Stagnation /	219
12	'The Fish and Waters Should Be Ours': The Demise of Native Fisheries -- Regulation and Capitalization /	234
13	'Civilizing the Wilderness Will Affect Us': The Demise of the Hudson's Bay Company and the Re-Emergence of Competition /	249
14	'And Now That the Country Has Gone Mining Crazy': Industrial Capital, Native People, and the Regional Economy /	283
	Conclusion: A Foreword to a New Economic Future? /	299
	Appendixes
	A Fur Trade Productivity and Prices: Stagnation and Revival /	310
	B Summary of Treaty Terms (Written Version) /	318
C	Some Land Scrip Intricacies /	321
	Notes /	334
	Index/	364

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